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January 14, 2004
Secrets
One of the things that bothers me most about this war is how secretive it is. I know, there are good claims of secrecy, points that need addressing. But the expectation is becoming more and more that we should not expect open access to the information our government is using to make decision in our name. Also, the outcome of those decisions is being held secret from us...
What we need our government to do is look at every secret document in its collection. If the document is more than 20 years old and/or about foes who are now friends, releasing that document to the public should be a no brainier...
There is a point worth thinking on: Any document that contains reference to active duty intelligence personnel stationed in foreign nations (you know, like undercover in France or something) should not have their identity revealed. And if the government needs to classify an entire document to hide that, they would be wise to do so...
Information of more recent vintage should, of course, be held to a more rigorous standard. Here, one question should be asked:
Does releasing this tell the enemy something they don't know?
If the enemy know it, and our government knows it, the American people should know it. I can't make any claims as to how the actual decision making process unfolds, but I can see that the Bush Admin. tends to not give information at all, if they can help it...
Posted by Andrew at January 14, 2004 10:55 AM
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